This is a computer-generated artist’s impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) that depicts an approximation of 12,000 objects in orbit around the Earth. It’s pretty amazing to think that each of those specks represent hundreds of millions of dollars and serve as some important part of a communications or defense infrastructure…
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Today’s social media landscape is growing at an amazing rate. I just found this mapped breakdown of today’s popular social media arranged by category. Kinda crazy considering many of them didn’t even exist a few years ago. How many of these social media sites on this map are you conversant in?
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There’s a host of new web applications coming out every day. Most are just hype but a few really stand out as something unique and useful. Animoto is one that is not only useful but also amazingly easy and fun to use.
Animoto is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a [...]
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator, which is a fancy way of saying that Newsmap displays all the top stories visually on one page…
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Yesterday marked the inauguration of not only our first African-American president, but also our most tech-savvy. Obama is the first president to release a web video address, he’s glued to his BlackBerry and is a known Mac enthusiast. So it’s no surprise that one of the first and most public signs of his administration at work was the new WhiteHouse.gov web site that launched yesterday at noon…
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We’re on it every day. It’s an infrastructure that spans geographical, economic and cultural barriers. The Internet generates more new information in a single day than a person was likely to come across in his entire lifetime 200 years ago. But where did it come from? How did it start?
Continue ReadingThis came in the mail today. It’s the upgrade for the newly released Adobe Creative Suite 4. I’m a true geek when it comes to new software or application upgrades. I pretty much spend most of the day digging through it and assimilating all the new tools, options and features into my design-geek-consciousness.
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I love Skype (username: RugglesCreative).
I can chat with my brother (above) and friends back in Fort Wayne even though they’re 2 hours away. The kids get to show Grandpa and Grandma a new outfit they just got or the latest acrobatic stunt even though we’re 5 hours from them. We get to stay in touch [...]
The Internet is changing daily. In the last few years we’ve seen the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter as millions have joined the social networking trend. But social networking isn’t just for business professionals trying to find new sales leads or socially inept computer nerds trying to retreat from the real world.
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I recently discovered a web site called the Wayback Machine (ht: nickasolas) that has archived over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages from 1996 to the present. You’ll find some interesting pieces of Internet history such as the original web sites for Internet Movie Database (Nov. ‘96), NASA (June ‘97) and Yahoo (Dec. ‘96).
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